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AMD Makes 10-Nanometer Transistor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the billionathlon dept.

Yorrike writes: "Reuters is reporting that AMD are about to reveal their smallest double-gate transistor to date. From the article: 'The gate of the transistor, across which electrical current flows to turn the switch on, measures 10 nanometers, or 10 billionths of a meter.' The article goes on to suggest that this may lead to a 1 billion transistor chip."

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  1. Dr. Evil's CPU... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dr. Evil: "And I will design a chip with transistors... 1 MILLION transistors!"

    #2: "Uh, Dr. Evil, we've already designed a chip with 1 million transistors, quite a few years ago in fact."

    Dr. Evil: "How many is a lot then?"

    #2: "1 billion would be very impressive. We're working on that right now."

    Dr. Evil: "Alright then... 1 BILLION transistors."

  2. Same. by Perdo · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the same transistor that IBM was talking about. They are sharing (or stealing) this technology. Electron microscope pictures are of the same transistor.

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  3. Now let's see them fab it by Snarfvs+Maximvs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great, but AMD needs to get their .13 micron process stable first.

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  4. Room to spare! by rot26 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just think about all the DRM they can pack into that baby!

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  5. Press Release Slants by FuzzyDaddy · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's amazing how two press reports on the same breakthrough claim it's significant for entirely different reasons.

    The earlier press release talked, in a half assed way, about the performance benefits. This one talks, in a half assed way, about the reduced size.

    Of course, this happens because whoever digests these things for us unwashed masses doesn't understand what the hell they're talking about.

    And the gate length has much more to do with the performance, not the transistor density, as the transistor density is dominated by the via sizes and interconnect sizes.

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  6. If sold in "Everything Scottish".... by echucker · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... this would be the "wee" size. "Not so wee" and "friggin' huge!" are now obsolete.

  7. CMOS Technology ??? by Proudrooster · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "AMD said its laboratory demonstration of 10 nanometer Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Fin Field Effect Transistor (CMOS FinFET) is the outcome of collaborative research between AMD and the University of California, Berkeley"
    CMOS technology with a silicon "fin" to prevent electron leakage?
    Where on earth am I going to find a motherboard for a CMOS processor?
    First CMOS, then Silicon, then Gallium (what ever happened GaAs anyway?), then Coppermine, and now back to CMOS with a silicon fin.....
    Mmmrrrppphh, full circle you have come young Jedi.
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